ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,722, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN SEKURIT FRANCE (Thourotte, France).

"Composite pane comprising a functional inlay element" was invented by Michael Kolf (Eschweiler, Germany), Dirk Wohlfeil (Raeren, Belgium), Gabor Varga (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Christopher Matheisen (Herzogenrath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite pane includes a first pane and a second pane joined to one another via at least one thermoplastic intermediate layer and a functional inlay element arranged between the first pane and the second pane. The functional inlay element includes a carrier layer and at least one electrically...